In this blog, Microsoft state that what they are seeing 'the phenomenon' as the correct implementation and Win 7 is performing as designed... Which means if you are seeing this error message from your notebook, that your battery is indeed reaching the end of its service life...

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2010/02/08/windows-7-battery-notification-messages.aspx

Some data points from the art ...

Windows 7 laptops/netbook/notebook users are experiencing an issues where the users may receive a message “Consider replacing your battery” even if their system or battery is new and there was no issues with it before.




This is not impacting all Windows 7 laptops. Some of the laptops/netbooks/notebooks impacted that we know off are:

Asus Eee PC 900
Asus Eee PC 701
LG Xnote R500
HP DV60 ...

Now customers in the United States, Canada, the UK, France and Germany, Japan... ...

New and improved Mini 10 netbook is now available, which now includes Intel's latest Atom processor.

Intel's official unveiling of "Pinetrail", the Atom processor got a makeover and the physical chips on the motherboard dropped from three to two. The Dell Mini 10 includes the 1.66GHz, Intel Atom N450 and the new Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 — all on the same processor package.

The Min ...

Also announced byt Dell at CES is the Mini 5, which looks like an Andriod tablet – they have now confirmed it as true and will ship later this year. The product called Mini 5 is a 3G and Wifi supported mobile phone. It’s christened Mini “5” because it is equipped with a 5 mega pixel camera and a 5-inch multi-touch screen.

We found this video in youtube which is a great introduction to the Mini 5 ...